The trouble begins
The US government's drive against Microsoft started in 1991 with an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission on whether Microsoft had established a monopoly in the operating systems.
The Department of Justice started another investigation on this. As a result, in 1994 Microsoft agreed
not to bundle the sale of other Microsoft products with Windows.
However, Microsoft insisted that Internet Explorer was not a product but a feature
which it was allowed to add to Windows, although the DOJ did not agree with this.
Image: Bill Gates during a press conference at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland. | Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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